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| What an experience!!!! That was incredible!!! Awesome in the literal sense of the word!!! All the feelings and ideas this story was able to convey in 26 episodes total, but especially the last two , were so impactful!!! I'm so surprised at how much I love Neon Genesis Evangelion now hahaha :D I wouldn't say that I HATED it before, but I definitely didn't think much of it. I did think the animation for episodes 1-24 was pretty stellar, but that's as far it went for me the first time. You don't find out what Gendo's motivations were, the Human Instrumentality Project was confusing, the questions left unanswered bothered the shit outta me. All I really got out of it the first time aside from some bitchin' sci-fi action was an idea of where the "get in the fucking robot" joke came from; if I can't understand why characters are doing what they do in a story or if I don't give a shit about what's going on, all the bombastic visuals in the world won't make me care. So even though I had a huge change of heart, I can still totally understand anyone who doesn't like Neon Genesis Evangelion hahaha :D I've been telling people to NOT watch Evangelion hahaha :p But damn. I don't know what else to say. I guess I've changed as a person since the first time I watched it (some time after 2015, but before the COVID lockdown I think)? It's kinda weird to think like that cause I don't feel like I've really changed at all, but I do feel different. I know it doesn't make any sense, but that's how I feel. Maybe that's why I enjoy Evangelion so much now, because I get to see the characters struggling with their own mental machinery. I found myself more interested in the characters as people trying to understand themselves than that actual battle between the humans and angels. For me, the battles ended up being more captivating as a stage for the characters to confront thoughts and emotions in an out-of-control environment rather than being about humans winning against monsters. That's why I now love these last two episodes that I previously hated. The last two episodes don't answer any of the questions left after episode 24, but I'm ok with that now cause the overall story was more important as a vehicle for the characters instead of itself. So crazy. I rewatched Evangelion cause "End of Evangelion" is getting a theatrical release real soon and I wanted a refresher; I remember liking the movie and it being... not abstract hahaha. But damn. I'm so glad a gave Evangelion another try. It now goes down as exceptional in my book. The classification of avant garde for this story and animation is apt :) People had posted how Shinji, Asuka, Rei, and Misato were faced with their common fear of being alone in the last episode; I missed that. It's gonna be alot of fun keeping an eye out for that on the subsequent viewing :D See you all in the "End of Evangelion" forum! :) |
| the perfect ending, i don't have words to describe how much i loved this show and these final episodes. shinji learns that even if he hates himself and think that he has no value, he can still learn to understand and love himself and the world around him. i'm in tears, an absolute masperpiece that completely deserve a 10/10. |
| ''Touch the darkness inside me'' |
| Yep, still my favourite. To get a little personal, I've been struggling with self-loathing and have just generally been in a deeply negative headspace recently, and the final episode of this show never fails to work as a beautiful reminder of how we can all change for the better and that life's worth living in spite of the hardships that come with struggling to determine who you are. It's not like my feelings are gonna change overnight, but the potential for happiness and fulfillment still exists. Be good to yourselves, folks. We all only have one shot on this wild ride called life. |
LoveLikeBloodMar 17, 2024 7:18 AM
Take care of yourself |
| I enjoyed this ending, truly. Overall, this is a great anime, although I got more invested only in the second half, the first one was very tedious to watch with some unnecessary episodes. Maybe I'll appreciate them more on rewatch, but that won't be happening anytime soon. Eva was one of the first anime I started watching back in the day, took me 17 years to properly finish it, finally!!! Manga was more engaging, imo. Different, sure, but both have their merits. As for phycological impact, anime ending felt more touching. Can't recall if there are actual changes on that part, or if I'm just in a different mental state currently... Either way, excited to see the movies now. I wonder if there's a version of Evangelion that I'll consider perfect through and through. |
| I don't think any final episode for an anime will have as amazing editing as this one. I do feel like you have to be older and more experienced with deeper literature to understand what this ending was doing and the message it was trying to convey. If I watched this when I was a teenager I would have been annoyed and simply said "wtf was that?". My time watching philosophical/experimental art films in college really helped me appreciate this ending. Or at the very least, this was far less challenging to watch than Twin Peaks: The Return. The experimental endings to 90s anime really make you realize how far anime has fallen as a medium for being anything other than popcorn entertainment. |
trumpetnixApr 13, 2024 4:37 PM
| Again I’ve said quite a lot in the last episode but the truth of the matter is, even when I’ve just taken a break from all the mind fuckery stuff and trying to just piece everything together it’s still hard for me to swallow all at once or indeed in my case watching the finale back to back with the penultimate episode which quite honestly I don’t think really helped me view the ending to Evangelion as a whole. Again I understand what they are trying to do, I respect people who like this ending and honestly more power to you guys to those who can appreciate the ending but when there’s only limited amounts of animation and there’s a lot of text and the ending itself isn’t conventional in the traditional sense it does mean that I’m trying so hard to keep up with everything but honestly I felt like I was in slow motion a lot of the time and it was just horrifically tedious to say the least. Not to mention that the cast aren’t really moving their lips half the time and it makes it look like they are talking to each other with telepathy in this weird mind palace or inside Shinji’s mind I don’t know it’s psychological stuff and metaphorical to represent a point. I mean even with the limited budget I feel like the animators would’ve still struggled to even come up with something on such a small budget. And there are so many things left unanswered and pretty much just forgotten about that they might as well be an afterthought concerning all the questions that I now have in regards to this show. Is the ending bad? Yes. Do I not like it in the slightest? Yes but I’m not going to be rabid about it because I’ve had time to think it over. Will I possibly watch the movies for Evangelion like End of Evangelion or Rebuild of Evangelion, etc, etc? Maybe but at the moment I feel I should probably give this franchise a rest because the reason why I’ve haven’t given my thoughts on the finale until now is mainly because I had to recover from all this. Tell me why in the middle of all this introspection stuff do I suddenly have what appears to be an alternative universe where Asuka is apparently a childhood friend of Shinji, Rei’s more emotional than she ever was for the vast majority of the show and just basically turning into a weird slice of life show and then back to the mindfuckery stuff? Just god damn, just god damn what the hell is going on? Regardless of how I feel about the ending, it doesn’t really detract from it being an awesome show, it’s just the fact that the ending suffers mainly just because ill timed planning and thinking which lead to this clusterfuck to begin with. I will say it’s a brilliant, with a great cast, memorable soundtrack and gorgeous animation for the most part and I can see why this anime in question was not like other mecha shows of it’s time. It’s definitely left it’s mark on the anime world and I understand why it’s so popular. I’ll give Evangelion, a 9/10 overall. |
| this was a good anime |
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| Didnt liked this ending at all. It could have ended at episode 25...with an inner reflexion. Time to see The End of Evangelion i guess. |
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| Wellp i officially completed the most talked about anime of all time! Okay I absolutely detest the mecha genre and the first like 4-5 episodes were pretty hard to sit through, but it picked up for me around the 6-7 ish episode mark- which surprised me bc i didn’t expect it to get “better” until ep 13 like many were saying. I def enjoyed the psychological/philosophical aspect of it more than the eva/angels lore and battle scenes (hence why i’m riding the episodes-25-and-26-were-great train) but even my lesser favorite parts were still okay. So yeah, overall i respect the work for what it is and don’t think it’s necessarily overrated, glad i watched Oh yeah and did i understand all of it? No but that’s okay lol |
π  I wish you an ounce of luck |
| gotta watch the movies again now mwuahahahaha |
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| i have just one word... what. seriously. what??? man was Spike Spencer's reaction to the ending relatable! i don't totally hate it but just...what was the point??? what was the point of those last two episodes other than overcoming depression and showcasing character backstories we already know?? mental breakdown scenes were good. voice acting was good. we got some good memes from the last two episodes (Shinji in the chair). some moments i could sadly relate to. but man did this anime deserve a better ending. i'd rather just leave things unfinished. "you ran outta ink too didn't you, ya bastards..." |
Reply to LoveLikeBlood
Yep, still my favourite.
To get a little personal, I've been struggling with self-loathing and have just generally been in a deeply negative headspace recently, and the final episode of this show never fails to work as a beautiful reminder of how we can all change for the better and that life's worth living in spite of the hardships that come with struggling to determine who you are. It's not like my feelings are gonna change overnight, but the potential for happiness and fulfillment still exists.
Be good to yourselves, folks. We all only have one shot on this wild ride called life.
To get a little personal, I've been struggling with self-loathing and have just generally been in a deeply negative headspace recently, and the final episode of this show never fails to work as a beautiful reminder of how we can all change for the better and that life's worth living in spite of the hardships that come with struggling to determine who you are. It's not like my feelings are gonna change overnight, but the potential for happiness and fulfillment still exists.
Be good to yourselves, folks. We all only have one shot on this wild ride called life.
| @LoveLikeBlood I agree. But i think, this is the best ending, excluding the manga, because i preffer happy endings. BUT this leaves so many questions. Specially back in the 90s early 00s in which people were super confused and hated it. Heck, we can just read the earliest comments here about the first episode. This anime in general, to episode 17 it can be "Lighthearted" even like a regular anime, but each episode had always this ominous vibe to it. I think, it would benefit more with even more episodes, in a way, like those minutes with Asuka, SHinji what life could had been without Evas, i mean, more "slice of life", so we could even feel more the characters fall. I would easily see more 10 episodes. The final message is very good, but damn, this anime is not the best one, if you arent in a good place. The Movie Eoe makes it even worse, despite in a way it has a good message. But like i said, we enjoyed it, because it was from decades ago, we have internet, tons of acess to articles, debuks about this show, explanations, the oportunity to watch and rewatch. Even the movie that kinda explains what is happening "outside" how everyone turned to fanta and are now connected in this. People back then, didnt have all of this. I think, or i like to think that in the end, they all came back representing all of them in the end with those claps. I mean Eoe gives the choice, so. Still iconic series. Missed out all this time. |
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| Def seemed like they ran out with the budget with the animation but honestly these last two eps where smth , way better than any other eps in this show (except the backstory one) , this show had two major strenghts in my opinion- Character writing and unique editing, all were used to full extent in these last two eps. The story as a whole seems better looking back , the character arcs were good imo, animation was obv good with those frame rates and attention to detail with those shadows. Examples of editing i liked was long pauses in between and making us feel anticipation and form emotions like the long elevator silence shot , also the quick time changes in the backstory episode or quick change of perspective. Many eps could get boring as they seemed episodic with an angel coming and obv they get rid of the angel while seeming to show the world would end but the suspense wasnt felt to me bcz it was too predictable. So, enjoyment is major for me which a lot of time this show let down, I still feel there is smth to explore...end of eva here i come. |
| I somehow feel left in the dark. It was a good episode, but I still have more questions. I think I might watch Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth next. |
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| the last two episodes reminded me of these classic lyrics: "Nobody likes me Everybody hates me Guess I'll go eat worms" The moral of the story is to not be a bad parent or you will end up mopey annoying kids whining about how everyone hates them in psuedo psychobabble. At least the intro song is a banger. |
| @RealYRC All that glazing and you rated it a mere 7. Not complimentary. |
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| Geez, this show was certainly something. Right fever dream there at the end... I mean I guess it was a nice little speech at the end about how human interpretation works etc. but, man this was trippy. |
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